%0 Journal Article %A Chen, Shen %T Cultural components in the teaching of Asian languages %D 1995 %J Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. Supplement Series %V 12 %N 1 %P 153-168 %@ 0817-9514 %R https://doi.org/10.1075/aralss.12.10che %I John Benjamins %X The importance of understanding target cultures is an increasingly acknowledged aspect in the teaching of Asian languages. Yet how to incorporate the teaching of cultures with languages remains controversial. This paper will discuss a number of main paradigms of teaching target culture employed in Asian language programs and propose a concept of capacity which relates target cultures with the language learners’ own culture. %U https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/aralss.12.10che